Both the New York Times and blogs are key parts of the conversation that is currently happening. The role New York Times serves is to be the big brother, the Word. An organization such as NY Times tends to feel more objective in their opinion. The blog is the little brother saying, “Yeah you’re right!” or “No, you’re a stinky poopface!” Blogs respond to the authoritative stance that news sources push on them. Both news and blogs are incredibly necessary in this new ecology of the press. Authority means nothing unless there is something or someone to preach to and every pissed off kid needs a parent to be mad at. Blogs have two crossing paths to take: they can either be the supporter or the protester. The blog I am following usually stays on the fringe, stretching what our minds think the ways are definitive. I find this path to be a very exciting part of the conversation. If a conversation had no room for further understanding they would not yield much deep communication. As this little brother, the blog, grows up, the lines between authority and follower are becoming increasingly grayer. News sources are beginning to receive a lot of their information from the blogs they used to be preaching to. Who knows? Maybe in some years the congregation will become the preacher and the preacher, the sinner.
I like how you call Newspapers like the New York Times the "big brother", but i don't know if i agree. Sometimes blogs take quite the opposite stance, and are much more opinionated. Nice language though haha "stinky poopface"
ReplyDeleteThe blog does help me expand my ideas a lot. Also I like the little kid mad at parent metaphor.
ReplyDeleteThe NY Times as the "big brother" and blogs as the "little brother" is a great analogy. I never thought of it that way before!
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